“I am not a crook” – November 17, 1973

Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.“

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was the only President to resign the office as well as the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency.